勝見里奈

Rina Katsumi

In 2025, my grandmother, whose memory system was disrupted, began to talk often about her childhood.
She had never been someone who talked much about herself. It's not that she was quiet; rather, she was cheerful and laughed a lot.
She cooked a lot for her family, loved movies and novels, and had a very loud sneeze.
My grandmother was born on a small island in a port town with a thriving shipbuilding industry, and she was the daughter of a watchmaker.

We are all like light printed in the place where we are born.
I walk to visit.
Even if I no longer live there, even if I can't grasp even a fragment of memory,
The door is always open, and I am standing "there."
"There" will never become "here."
That must be what it means to take photographs.

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Katsumi Rina carefully photographs "familiar objects" as her motif, capturing surreal moments glimpsed in everyday life, projecting layered worlds and sometimes fleeting light.

At its core is a gaze toward a long timeline that connects us across human lifetimes.
As we record the scenery before our eyes, we become part of the history of that land.

This exhibition is located in the area where Rokujo-in, a mansion depicted in The Tale of Genji, a classic of Japanese court romance, is said to have existed approximately 1,000 years ago.

In this place where reality and fiction once intersected, the world that Katsumi has documented over the course of eight years will offer viewers a new perspective on the everyday.